[plug] ArachNet sale to AmCom...

[Mark B]

haha "senectus" sounds like an STD

oh and yes, illegal file sharing is bad..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com>
To: <plug at plug.org.au>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] ArachNet sale to AmCom...


> On 9/9/05, Shannon Carver <Shannon.Carver at p-s-t.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hey again,
> >
> > Sorry to sway off topic again, but that's a point of view I hadn't
thought
> > of.  In iinet's favour they have 2TB local FTP server with rsynced
> > debian/gentoo/xxx…. Repositories, which is extremely useful in that
respect.
> >  I guess however, that the fact Amnet gives you 80GB of waix traffic on
the
> > larger plan would be more than enough for those sort of downloads.  Pity
the
> > people trying to pull that kind of data on the lower traffic plans
though!
> >
>
> Although it's not my place to say.. I would have to suggest that
> anyone trying to pull 50 gig a month of data off the WAIX network is
> pretty likely to be doing illegal file sharing, and considering the
> pain that some WA ISP's are going through right now because their
> customers were _caught_ doing that.. I'd want to limit or manage the
> damage somehow.
>
>
> --
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